Location

Denver, Colorado USA

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Experiential education is a pedagogical approach that connects the academic course components to practical skills, and contributes to a student’s deeper learning, personal growth, and professional motivation. Most tourism and hospitality instructors use an applied learning approach due to the nature of the field. This paper discusses benefits of using the program theory as a framework to design and assess learning outcomes for an experiential learning project in a tourism marketing course.

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29-7-2011 12:45 PM

End Date

7-29-2011 1:45 PM

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Assessing Learning Outcomes Using Program Theory: An Experiential Tourism Marketing Course Project

Denver, Colorado USA

Experiential education is a pedagogical approach that connects the academic course components to practical skills, and contributes to a student’s deeper learning, personal growth, and professional motivation. Most tourism and hospitality instructors use an applied learning approach due to the nature of the field. This paper discusses benefits of using the program theory as a framework to design and assess learning outcomes for an experiential learning project in a tourism marketing course.

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/refereed/ICHRIE_2011/Friday/2